Poetry

Final Thoughts

Final Thoughts

Jody's Notes

This is interesting. (I mean, it's interesting in a self-absorbed autobiographical sort of way.) This poem was the very last of the poems that I wrote in a kind of narrative genre that I had been pursuing pretty steadily for over a decade. When I took up writing poems again some years later (in 1993, I think), I discovered that a kind of fragmentation had now invaded my poetics. So this poem involved endings in at least two ways.

This isn't the only case. More than once I'd thought I'd given up fiction forever when in fact (as I discovered some years later) all that had really happened was that I was now writing fiction in some entirely new way that I would have found repugnant before.